WESTERN BUREAU:Resident Magistrate Natalie Hart-Hines ordered on Monday that a man who appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court for stealing a woman's cell phone be remanded in custody after it was revealed that he had recently...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Hanover Parish Library officially started its tablet computer training programme for senior citizens last week Thursday in Lucea.The programme is being led by parish librarian Marvetta Stewart, aided by her informationtechnology...
Published:Tuesday | March 31, 2015 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
WESTERN BUREAU:With the crime situation in St James again getting worrisome, especially in light of recent incidents such as the quadruple murder in Cambridge, in which an eight-year-old child was among those killed, some stakeholders in the parish...
WESTERN BUREAU:Roehampton Primary School emerged winners of the St James Primary School Garden Competition for the secondyear in a row when they eclipsed second-place Bickersteth Primary School and third-place Cambridge Primary School, respectively...
WESTERN BUREAU:Montego Bay' mayor, Councillor Glendon Harris, the chairman of the St. James branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) says the country must boost agricultural production in order to reduce food importation, which he says is...
Do you believe the Montego Bay Freezone is meeting its mandate in terms of creating employment for Jamaicans? Jacquiline Hyde -secretary "No...I don't believe the government is not providing sufficient jobs through the freezone...based on where...
Want to try aninjectablecontraceptive?Almost half of all pregnancies in Jamaica are unplanned. The rate is even higher in teenagers. In other words, they are due to failure to use contraceptives properly or at all. Some persons are afraid of getting...
WESTERN BUREAU:Dr Beverly Scott, arguably western Jamaica's best known family therapist, is calling for special counselling to be provided for the relatives of young people whose lives are violently snuffed out.Scott's comments were made against the...
NEGRIL, Westmoreland:More than 30 children from western Jamaica last week benefitted from the annual Negril Paediatric Orthotic Clinic, which was held at the Sunshine Village Plaza, in West End, in the resort town.The clinic's objective is to...
Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater
WESTERN BUREAU:Red-hot reggae star Sizzla Kalonji will be exposing another side of himself on Sunday, March 29, when his Sizzla Promotions joins forces with Imagine Entertainment in staging the inaugural Jamaica Bike Festival at the Trelawny Multi-...
Montego Bay Convention CentreConvention connectionsMontego Bay Convention Centre is the Caribbean's newest and finest offering to the convention industry. The centre is conveniently located along the Elegant Corridor of Rose Hall, Montego Bay....
Antioxidant consumption is one of the things that has been touted as such, but there has been conflicting information given about whether antioxidants are beneficial to your health. What's the real story?Even though oxygen is necessary for life,...
WESTERN BUREAU:Major stakeholders in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector have restated their predictions that the industry will, in the very near future, surpass tourism as Jamaica's largest provider of jobs.The point was raised by Davon...
Carla Ledgister(Acting Chairperson,Trelawny ParishDevelopment Committee)"Not much can be done in Falmouth right now because the new craft market has not been built. The craft area, where...
Western Bureau:The prestigious Uni-versity of Technology (UTech) Caribbean School of Nursing (CSON) incorporated its first batch of midwifery students during the faculty's fourth annual striping ceremony, which was held at the Calvary Baptist Church...
WESTERN BUREAU:Glowing tributes were paid to the life and work of the late Professor Ralston Milton (Rex) Nettleford when the Cornwall College Old Boys' Association and the University of the West Indies, Western Jamaica Campus recently honoured him...
Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMKarrie Williams
WESTERN BUREAU:The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) took its islandwide Parish Connection Series to the Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland last week Wednesday for a fun-filled day of giveaways and educational lectures.The purpose of the...
NEGRIL, Westmoreland:All is now set for the fourth staging of Escape Entertainment's JB Overproof Rum-sponsored Great Escape Easter Weekend party series, which will take place in Negril, Westmoreland, from April 3 to 6.Denzel 'Fada' Scott, the...
Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2015 | 7:53 AMKarrie Williams
WESTERN BUREAU:Craft vendors operating in the town of Falmouth, Trelawny, are expressing much unhappiness with the Trelawny Parish Council and other state agencies, who they say have abandoned them after making numerous promises to help them.Chief...
WESTERN BUREAU:Vision 2030, Jamaica's national development plan, notes that, among the "priority sector strategies" for the development of an internationally competitive tourism industry is the transformation of the "concept, physical ambiance and...
WESTERN BUREAU:A St Andrew businesswoman who was arrested and charged after seven and a half pounds of compressed ganja was reportedly found in two suitcases she was carrying had her bail extended until April 2 when she appeared in the Montego Bay...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St Lucian who was recently arrested for overstaying his time in Jamaica by two years was slapped with a deportation order following his appearance in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.Malik Devoe, who...
